Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Britain had to withdraw from Suez without getting the canal or bringing down Nasser, Selwyn Lloyd had two options: to confess defeat or to brazen it through. He chose to claim a victory...
...collusion can be established." said Labor's Aneurin Bevan, "the whole fabric of the government's case falls to the ground." The main theme of Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd's defense was to show that while "it is true that we were well aware of the possibility of trouble," there was no secret agreement between Prime Ministers Anthony Eden, Guy Mollet and David Ben-Gurion over the timing of their respective attacks on Egypt, and that there was neither deceit nor fraud in Eden's declared objective of "separating the combatants" and "removing the risk...
...first public reckoning of the economic cost of Eden's Suez policy hit Parliament like a splash of cold water, thrown by Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, whose sober demeanor seemed to say: in aqua frigida veritas. The jeers and roars that had greeted Selwyn Lloyd gave way to somber attentiveness when Macmillan gravely declared: "The customary monthly announcement on the gold and dollar reserves is being issued to the press today ... It shows a fall of $279 million in the reserves...
Britain's Tories might not much admire the man who said these words, leftist Laborite John Strachey, but they could not ignore some of his home truths. Last week the Tory cabinet assembled to hear the report of Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, just back from the U.S. Lloyd had no good news. The U.S. still refused to arrange for emergency oil supplies until the British and French at least announced plans for withdrawal from Suez. After two hours' discussion, the Cabinet made the inevitable reluctant decision: Britain would withdraw. Significantly, in all the week's painful decisions...
...anti-Communist neighbors in the Baghdad Pact-particularly Turkey and Iraq-met and agreed to fight "subversion" from Syria. The Turks announced "routine" army maneuvers near the Syrian border and flew their Acting Foreign Minister to London to discuss "the Syrian situation" with Britain's Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd. Did they intend to put Syria out of its misery...